The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1887-09-13

this Kingdom and those of the Is
land of Oahu have spoken in en-
phatic tones for Reform and for the
new Constitution in its integrity. BY
overwhelming majorities, putting far
in the shade the majorities by which
the so-called -" National Party
gained the last Legislature, the peo-
pie of Honolulu and of Oahu have
utterly extinguished the party of
Constitution tinkers, reactionists,
malcontents and professional dema-
gogues. Yesterday was glorious
day for Honolulu and Oahu, and
there can be little doubt that news
from the other Islands will show it to
have been a glorious day for the
whole Kingdom. The rest of the
country needed Reform IN govern
ment to be perpetuated as much as
this city and island. therefore it is
not too sanguine to anticipate of the
other constituencies that their desire
has accorded with their need. At
least may confidence be felt that the
other Islands Will send Reform con
tingent to the Legislative Assembly
which. with the thirteen members
elect from this Island, will ensure a
free course for the new Constitution
and the Government identified there
with throughout the ensuing two
years.
1t is not too much to say that the
Reform triumph in Honolulu has eX-
ceeded all anticipations Even among
Reformers during the last two weeks
of the campaign, not to go further
back, there was a marked absence of
Boosting with regard to the prospects
of the ticket for Representatives.
Many thought the party would do ex-
ceedingly well if it elected all the
candidates for Mobiles and one or two
of those for Representatives. The
tremendous majorities by which all
the Reform candidates for both
houses are returned is gratifying in
the extreme, on many accounts.
Above all things. it is matter for pro-
found satisfaction that Honolulu has
been true to the stand made by its
representative citizens for reform on
the Both Of June, besides sending to
the Legislature for the first time in
many years a body Of men to whom
all its people may point with respect.
Not the least among the causes for
mutual congratulation between the
Reform candidates and their thor
ough-going supporters must be count
ed the active, bitter and unscrupulous
plan Of campaign on the part of the
Opposition party, which was appar-
emily turned to naught by nothing
more than the quiet determination of
the great body of thinking people to
trust the precious reforms of.the new
Constitution IN the keeping of no
man or set of men who had not iden-
titled themselves uneQuivocally with
the cause Of responsible, honest gov
eminent from the earliest opportunity
presented him or them. Side issues
We're dinned into the ears of the null
tItUde, of kind most likely to capt.
vate those ready to listen to mere
partisan cry, but the spokesman of
the Reform party replied only by
keeping the main question luminous
to the reason of the body polite.
namely, whether the principles of re-
form We're to go on and prosper or
the country was to take backward
plunge into the seething vortex of
mal-administration from which it had
been rescued by bold effort. Nobly
have the voters of all nationalities
justified the appeals made to their
reasons, covering with lasting con-
tempt the political tactics of dema-
gogues. In a single case did the
Opposition diverge from the general
scheme of attack upon irrelevant
grounds, in ringing the changes upon
the payment by the Ministry of the
Makih land claims without specific
authority of law. In the verdict of
the electorate the Opposition critics
may read that the Hawaiian public
have approved Of the Reform Min
istry's anticipation of legislative
sanction for an act Of justice. making
partial restitution TO poor men dgs-
poiled, by the imperious oligarchs
that formerly misruled the country.
OF their small holdings that gave
them their whole ivings. And this
part of the popular verdict is in no
wise inconsistent with the righteous
condemnation of the former Ministry
for illegal Interpretations by hun
dreds of thousands Of dollars. entirely
on account Of its own criminal mis-
management and waste of the ma
tional revenues. In a word. the Re
form Ministry trusted the country's
sense of justice, and the country has
expressed its approval of the Reform
Mlnistry's act of justice
1t Is a most encouraging token for
the future of the nation that the
native Hawaiian votes are to be cred
tied with large share of this signal
triumph of reform principles. This
fact all the more honors their race
from the infammatory appeals made
to their fears and their preiudices